Found: Income is generated from services such as issuing visas and passports .
Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab - Life peer) With the changes to the visa rules for dependants this January, the Home Office has made it harder for - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) If you want to study for a master’s degree overseas, you apply for three or four different visas in different - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) visa rules were changed at the start of the year so that international students could no longer bring dependants - Speech Link
Found: 2022 has challenged the UK’s recruitment of international students with restrictions on dependent visas
Asked by: Caroline Lucas (Green Party - Brighton, Pavilion)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to provide safe and legal entry routes for people in Gaza seeking to join family members in the UK.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The UK Government is monitoring the situation in Israel and Gaza closely to ensure that it is able to respond appropriately.
British citizens and those with settled status in the UK, together with their foreign national dependants, may come to the UK provided that they have valid travel documents and existing permission to enter or remain in the UK; or are non-visa nationals. They must also pass appropriate security checks.
The Government allows individuals with protection status in the UK to sponsor their partner or children to stay with, or join, them here through our refugee family reunion policy, provided they formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their country of origin to seek protection.
There are additional safe and legal routes for people to come to the UK should they wish to join family members here, work, or study. They would need to meet the requirements of the relevant Immigration Rule under which they were applying to qualify for a visa.
The Home Office has not considered establishing a separate resettlement route for Palestinians to come to the UK. Since 2015, over half a million people have been offered safe and legal routes into the UK. Our approach is considered in the round, rather than on a crisis-by-crisis basis.
UK Visas and Immigration is working closely with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in supporting family members of British nationals evacuated from Gaza who require a visa, signposting the necessary steps and expediting appointments at the Visa Application Centre.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential economic impact on Robert Gordon University of the restrictions to student visa routes implemented on 1 January 2024.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Government will continue to strike the balance between reducing overall net migration, protecting the economic benefits that overseas students bring to the UK and ensuring that businesses have the skills they need. Those affected by changes made to the Student visa will predominantly be dependants of students who make a more limited contribution to the economy than students or those on work visas, minimising the impact on UK growth.
We have been successful in delivering our International Education Strategy goal of hosting 600,000 students per year by 2030, earlier than planned, and expect universities to be able to adapt to reduced dependant numbers.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential economic impact on the University of Aberdeen of the restrictions to student visa routes implemented on 1 January 2024.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Government will continue to strike the balance between reducing overall net migration, protecting the economic benefits that overseas students bring to the UK and ensuring that businesses have the skills they need. Those affected by changes made to the Student visa will predominantly be dependants of students who make a more limited contribution to the economy than students or those on work visas, minimising the impact on UK growth.
We have been successful in delivering our International Education Strategy goal of hosting 600,000 students per year by 2030, earlier than planned, and expect universities to be able to adapt to reduced dependant numbers.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential economic impact on Aberdeen City of the restrictions to student visa routes implemented on t January 2024.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Government will continue to strike the balance between reducing overall net migration, protecting the economic benefits that overseas students bring to the UK and ensuring that businesses have the skills they need. Those affected by changes made to the Student visa will predominantly be dependants of students who make a more limited contribution to the economy than students or those on work visas, minimising the impact on UK growth.
We have been successful in delivering our International Education Strategy goal of hosting 600,000 students per year by 2030, earlier than planned, and expect universities to be able to adapt to reduced dependant numbers.
Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Ideologically driven change to visas could further exacerbate the recruitment and retention crisis that - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) That is why we have worked with the Home Office on changes to visas. - Speech Link
3: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) next Monday, stopping those from overseas coming to fill skills gaps from bringing their spouse or dependants - Speech Link
4: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) On the question specifically on dependants, I say to her that every care worker who comes here to do - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) However, we have taken actions that are expected to lead to a significant fall in the number of dependants - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) , limiting the dependants coming in as the families of non-PhD or research-based students, changing the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) On students, it is important that the number of dependants coming into the UK should be limited, although - Speech Link
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: An inspection of the Home Office’s Afghan resettlement schemes (October 2022 – April 2023)Found: teams assess applications from four Afghan resettlement cohorts: • principal applicants to ARAP • dependants